2025, SMH: What housing crisis? For most, there isn’t one – but look how the other third live
By Kate Shaw This may come as a surprise given the media narrative, but Australia is not in a generalised housing crisis. Two-thirds of the nation’s householders own or are buying their homes – they are by definition not in housing crisis. The 20 per cent who own...
2025, Red Flag: ‘We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas’: Labor turns blind eye to Melbourne’s 100,000 empty homes
By Cormac Mills Ritchard In a humane world there would be a simple mathematical solution to this problem: 32,000 houses minus 24,000 homeless people equals no-one homeless and at least 8,000 homes to spare. Instead, we live in a world where property hoarders speculate...
2025, AFR: The hidden $50b tax break that could help solve the housing crisis
by John Kehoe September 5, 2025 The tax-free family home is the “elephant in the room” when it comes to intergenerational fairness, arguably contributing more to inequality and unproductive investment than any other concession. Prosper Australia director of research...
2025, AAP: No respite from tax burden on younger workers in budget
By Jacob Shteyman March 26 2025 Independent research body Prosper Australia called for structural reforms to rebalance the tax burden from younger income earners onto unearned wealth. “The next government must commit to a tax reform process during its term...Republish this article
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